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Prenatal Yoga 6-Week Specialty Course with Kate Miller

We welcome Kate Miller to Lighthouse Yoga Center!

Kate is well-known in the DC-area as one of the top prenatal yoga teachers. She has instructed and inspired moms for over 20 years and is bringing her prenatal yoga skills to Petworth. Register by purchasing “Prenatal Class Card” here.

Course Details

Prenatal yoga gives mamas the important time and space to relax and feel more comfortable with their changing bodies, as well as to deepen the growing relationship with their baby. This class is open to all levels of yoga experience, during any stage of pregnancy. The class emphasizes alignment based yoga instruction to help with the common aches and pains associated with with being pregnant. While building strength and flexibility in the body, concentration and mindfulness techniques will help prepare for birth and parenthood.

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Each 90-minute class will include time for sharing and community-building as well as the introduction of topics of interest and concern to expectant moms. There will be plenty of time for relaxation after the asana practice, to help you leave feeling refreshed and restored. As a birth worker, Kate weaves her knowledge of comfort measures and laboring techniques into her classes. If you’re expecting, you won’t want to miss this class to help support your pregnancy, birth and baby!

Dates:

Sundays June 24 to August 5 (no class on July 15)

4:30-6 pm

Price:

$110 for the full course. Note that we will not be offering make-up sessions for this course, but all students in the class are invited to join Kate’s Prenatal & Postnatal Community on Facebook! Go to the Red Moon Yoga Mamas FB group and ask to join (it’s a closed group). This resource is being provided for free to all the mamas in the course. Kate will be available via this group to answer questions and facilitate shared stories and experiences among expectant moms.

About the Instructor: Kate Miller

Kate Miller brings over 20 years of teaching experience to her classes. With a gift for teaching to all levels and special conditions, Kate loves to weave words of inspiration and spirit into her clear, direct instruction. Kate draws her depth of knowledge and kinesthetic understanding not only from many alignment based hatha yoga styles (Iyengar, Anusara, Astanga, Prana Flow), but also from her continued exploration of anatomy and movement study with Katy Bowman of Nutritious Movement.

She holds a BFA in modern dance, a MA in spiritual psychology and is currently enrolled at the Potomac Massage Therapy Institute. To her prenatal and postnatal yoga classes, Kate brings her knowledge and experience as a certified birth doula (DONA), a trained postpartum doula (DONA) and a trained childbirth educator. She is also trained in the RIE and Pikler approaches to childcare and infant development.

It is Kate’s wish to inspire her students to radically affirm and honor all that they embody and find for themselves on the mat what will best serve them in their day to day lives. To learn more about Kate, you can go to her website Red Moon Yoga.